14 comments:

I would not have worried about the ticket crinkling the way it did on the other cake. Charlie's ticket was crinkled in the movie. I'm sorry it didn't make it to the party though and you lost out on the time and effort you put into it. It was also very pretty. xxoo

Oh, you poor dear! I feel bad for you. Most of the time a disaster is harder work than anything. When something starts to go wrong, everything goes wrong. I had never thought about a cake disaster before. Hold your chin up & perservere, you are tooo talented to get discouraged...Tomorrow, tomorrow always tomorrow.

I feel for you—truly, but I still had to laugh at how it broke apart, honey! It gave me a good laugh. Sorry, but you are in earthquake country, right? I find humor in everything, sweets. But that gave me a good laugh just listening to you lament on how it turned out.xoxo,Connie

Oh Joanne, I feel so bad for you..the cakes were both lovely and you worked so hard on them. Like you said, lessons learned and move on. I'd still have you bake a cake for me.. less complicted of course!

Joanne, the cakes were amazing (I don't know a lick about decorating cakes and I'm in awe of the work you did. How sick you must have felt when you opened the car door and saw it. I'm sorry it fell apart on the ride over. And try as I might, I cannot see the flaw with the baseball one - it looked perfectly symmetrical to me - and GOOD! ... Donna @ An Enchanted Cottage

Oh Joanne I can't believe that happened to that pretty cake! What a shame for you, and the little girl, but sometimes things like this are beyond control and happened to the best bakers. I've even heard of wedding cakes collapsing at the last minute. In fact one wedding venue we know of has a fake cake to use in case that happens so the bride and groom can pretend cut the cake and they then serve sliced sheet cake slices. I guess they learned to do that from experience.The baseball theme cake is wonderful! I'm sure Liam was thrilled.

I hope you are feeling better --I'll send you an e-mail later about the Broadway shows...I'm running errands today!

I LOVEED the baseball cake. Sorry about your Willy Wonka cake. Yes, these things are bound to happen. I guess we just have to embrace them. Hard to do, easier to say. :) You should enter the cake contests on Food Network!

Joanne, that very thing happened to me yesterday on the way to deliver a 3-tiered topsy turvy cake for a baby shower. I just wanted to cry when I opened the back of my van and there was a HUGE mess! I think I DID cry for about an hour, and the fact that the ladies putting the baby shower on were so completely nice made me feel even worse. I ended up taking my emergency kit, running to the store for a bakery cake, and doctoring it to at least be presentable. I know we keep hearing "lesson learned" but it sure was hard to not feel like a complete failure after that. I'm so glad I found your blog and was able to find that, yes, it does really happen to everyone! Love your blog and your cakes!

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